El Sitio Oficial de Conacado, Inc.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Gisaku
Gisaku: Nihon-no Bushi unstuck in time arrives in modern Spain!?
?Birth of Spanish anime!!?NANI-GAAA??????
?Birth of Spanish anime!!?NANI-GAAA??????
posted by Anonymous @ 1:33 AM
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Building Great Software
If you've ever used a variety of software within one class, e.g., image editors or text editors or word processors, then you can tell in a brief time whether you're going to be able to work with a particular program. Everybody loves something, whether it's the worst cacophonous music you've ever heard or whether it's the worst program ever built.
Don't ask ? I've no idea why. Humans manage to both delight and annoy me ? at the same time.
My whole brain seeks quality in everything, whether it's a garden tool, a garment to wear, or software. And if you're going to work with a particular type of software every day for most of your working life, why not choose the best? (You decide what's best; I only recommend?what I believe is the best.) Often however, software is chosen before the employee ever walks through the door. This is tragic, as usually it's one stupid jackass who bought the software license from a marketing rep in 1991 and still thinks it's good. Meanwhile, the world moved on.
In the late 1990s I worked for a company that sold the biggest piece of shit crapware you could imagine. They had convinced themselves that it was good, but over time it had grown so complex that no single person in the company held mastery over it. It never let go of it's god-fucking-awful Windows 3.0 interface ? even in 2002! ? and it was so buggy that customers used only a handful of its features in fear that doing anything else would compromise their data elsewhere.?I was eventually fired for rewriting portions of the Help file to remove the developer's errors. Trust me, I didn't mind, since my next job paid far more. You don't correct others' mistakes in Corporate Amerika. You shut up and cheer ever louder! You know the routine, because it happens every day in every walk of life, from relationships to organizations to economies.
My point is, don't settle for second best or worst. Life is too short to spend it in frustration.?Do your homework, test a wide variety of apps, and if it's an app you will use all day, make sure it's the best. For me, that's my text editor. I use UltraEdit. For you, it might be some productivity software or a browser or RSS reader or an image editing app. When you use the best for you, then you will have no tolerance?for poorly coded and ill-designed software, as you should.
Don't ask ? I've no idea why. Humans manage to both delight and annoy me ? at the same time.
My whole brain seeks quality in everything, whether it's a garden tool, a garment to wear, or software. And if you're going to work with a particular type of software every day for most of your working life, why not choose the best? (You decide what's best; I only recommend?what I believe is the best.) Often however, software is chosen before the employee ever walks through the door. This is tragic, as usually it's one stupid jackass who bought the software license from a marketing rep in 1991 and still thinks it's good. Meanwhile, the world moved on.
In the late 1990s I worked for a company that sold the biggest piece of shit crapware you could imagine. They had convinced themselves that it was good, but over time it had grown so complex that no single person in the company held mastery over it. It never let go of it's god-fucking-awful Windows 3.0 interface ? even in 2002! ? and it was so buggy that customers used only a handful of its features in fear that doing anything else would compromise their data elsewhere.?I was eventually fired for rewriting portions of the Help file to remove the developer's errors. Trust me, I didn't mind, since my next job paid far more. You don't correct others' mistakes in Corporate Amerika. You shut up and cheer ever louder! You know the routine, because it happens every day in every walk of life, from relationships to organizations to economies.
My point is, don't settle for second best or worst. Life is too short to spend it in frustration.?Do your homework, test a wide variety of apps, and if it's an app you will use all day, make sure it's the best. For me, that's my text editor. I use UltraEdit. For you, it might be some productivity software or a browser or RSS reader or an image editing app. When you use the best for you, then you will have no tolerance?for poorly coded and ill-designed software, as you should.
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Friday, April 14, 2006
Courtesy of You Tube
Video description:
Gotes espermatozòidiques a Mamalou.
Personal message:
como si desde caalunya se tratara...
posted by Anonymous @ 11:43 AM
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Roberto Bolaño: Un Resplandor en la Mejilla
...para muestra más clara, este botón
gris de lluvia sobre mi cumpleanyos cuarenta y doce
como diría el Joaco Sabina...
Roberto Bolaño: Un Resplandor en la Mejilla
'...¿De todo eso que vi realmente? ¿Con qué ojos tremendos
contemplé el olor puro de aquella muchacha sencillamente
parada en la entrada de un circo? Sólo recuerdo
haber estado demasiado tiempo en un cuarto blanco leyendo novelas
policiales; casi toda mi vida mientras tú me mirabas desde
una ventana redonda, como de baño público, y
los adolescentes se reían como si acabaran de salir del desierto
con los bolsillos llenos de dinero gratis.
Dinero gratis, dinero gratis, amor gratis, un resplandor
inconcebible en la mejilla. Soñadores transformándose a sí mismos
pero incapaces de convencer a una muchacha de que la aman...'
gris de lluvia sobre mi cumpleanyos cuarenta y doce
como diría el Joaco Sabina...
Roberto Bolaño: Un Resplandor en la Mejilla
'...¿De todo eso que vi realmente? ¿Con qué ojos tremendos
contemplé el olor puro de aquella muchacha sencillamente
parada en la entrada de un circo? Sólo recuerdo
haber estado demasiado tiempo en un cuarto blanco leyendo novelas
policiales; casi toda mi vida mientras tú me mirabas desde
una ventana redonda, como de baño público, y
los adolescentes se reían como si acabaran de salir del desierto
con los bolsillos llenos de dinero gratis.
Dinero gratis, dinero gratis, amor gratis, un resplandor
inconcebible en la mejilla. Soñadores transformándose a sí mismos
pero incapaces de convencer a una muchacha de que la aman...'
posted by Anonymous @ 11:36 AM
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Remake Online - La Construcción de una Película
Remake Online - La Construcción de una Película
...el Festival de Málaga este anyo inauguró sección LAmericana...
(aunque 'remake' no es una dellas...me interesa por su época, algo 'big chill' goes Espain, y
'big buzz' on magnífico ensemble acting work...)
--te remito a esta pag del site pq tienes el trailer, y más abajo un trozo del 'making of' bastante divertido...
very fun site!
...el Festival de Málaga este anyo inauguró sección LAmericana...
(aunque 'remake' no es una dellas...me interesa por su época, algo 'big chill' goes Espain, y
'big buzz' on magnífico ensemble acting work...)
--te remito a esta pag del site pq tienes el trailer, y más abajo un trozo del 'making of' bastante divertido...
very fun site!
posted by Anonymous @ 11:32 AM
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Bigas Luna - pagina oficial
Bigas Luna - pagina oficial
website más alucinante...por ejemplo, click #4- montajes...o lo que se te ocurra...
website más alucinante...por ejemplo, click #4- montajes...o lo que se te ocurra...
posted by Anonymous @ 11:28 AM
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story begins and crumbles
rain endless shy courtship of ground--
clunky god out of stolen memory tool?
taken loss life gone-
mixed-up love science rot?
again & again robbd blind
fat spare drops mute
in time beat mute in time
taught tame by wait
clunky god out of stolen memory tool?
taken loss life gone-
mixed-up love science rot?
again & again robbd blind
fat spare drops mute
in time beat mute in time
taught tame by wait
posted by Anonymous @ 11:20 AM
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Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/PostOilBulletin/IssueNumberTwo.html
--from th excerpted fragment, by Dmitry Orlov:
'...An economy collapses one person, one family, one community at a time. First, the dreams evaporate: the future starts looking worse than the present, and ever more uncertain. Then people are forced to withstand ever greater indignities and privations, which they tend to accept as their personal failings. The resulting stress causes them to experience a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. Our pride, our habits and expectations, and our unwillingness to adapt, can kill us faster than any physical hardship. But eventually something has to give, and even if life does not get any easier, one morning we wake up, and not only has life all around us been transformed out of all recognition, but everyone we encounter recognizes that times have changed. And we realize that none of this is about us personally, and feel better.
I feel qualified to write on this subject because I had the opportunity to observe an economic collapse firsthand. I did some of my growing up in the Soviet Union, and the rest in the United States. I have visited Russia repeatedly, on personal trips and on business, during the years of Perestroika, the ensuing collapse, and the lean years of the 1990s. I feel equally at home, or, on occasion, lost, in both places. Unlike most Russian émigrés who witnessed the collapse, I was fascinated rather than traumatized by my experiences there, and have not tried to blot them out of my memory, as many of them have. Also unlike most émigrés, I know quite a lot about the United States, its society and its economy, see its fateful weaknesses, and care about what happens here...'
...check out th amazing maps of th LA basin, & Buenos Aires, as you scroll down th page...!
--from th excerpted fragment, by Dmitry Orlov:
'...An economy collapses one person, one family, one community at a time. First, the dreams evaporate: the future starts looking worse than the present, and ever more uncertain. Then people are forced to withstand ever greater indignities and privations, which they tend to accept as their personal failings. The resulting stress causes them to experience a variety of physical and psychological symptoms. Our pride, our habits and expectations, and our unwillingness to adapt, can kill us faster than any physical hardship. But eventually something has to give, and even if life does not get any easier, one morning we wake up, and not only has life all around us been transformed out of all recognition, but everyone we encounter recognizes that times have changed. And we realize that none of this is about us personally, and feel better.
I feel qualified to write on this subject because I had the opportunity to observe an economic collapse firsthand. I did some of my growing up in the Soviet Union, and the rest in the United States. I have visited Russia repeatedly, on personal trips and on business, during the years of Perestroika, the ensuing collapse, and the lean years of the 1990s. I feel equally at home, or, on occasion, lost, in both places. Unlike most Russian émigrés who witnessed the collapse, I was fascinated rather than traumatized by my experiences there, and have not tried to blot them out of my memory, as many of them have. Also unlike most émigrés, I know quite a lot about the United States, its society and its economy, see its fateful weaknesses, and care about what happens here...'
...check out th amazing maps of th LA basin, & Buenos Aires, as you scroll down th page...!
posted by Anonymous @ 11:18 AM
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Vega Baja shore erosion looking west: 1964?-2005
(**widen message frame to align images side-by-side for full effect) (vielen, vielen dank' to meine neffe J-H-David for an incredible birthday present!)
(Alberto & Javier with Dr.D...have mid-point images- 1986/7- on VHS tape I need to transfer...)
(Alberto & Javier with Dr.D...have mid-point images- 1986/7- on VHS tape I need to transfer...)
posted by Anonymous @ 11:12 AM
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